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JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Diet passes bill to give corporate status to NPOs

The Diet passed a revised bill March 19 that will give corporate status to volunteer and other citizens' groups for the first time by recognizing them as official nonprofit organizations.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Deregulation steps to end power firms' monopoly

The government announced March 19 that it plans to end utilities' monopoly on electric power generation and lift a ban on cheaper air fares as part of its fiscal 1998-2000 deregulation program.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Matsumoto families settle for 510 million yen

Families affected by the Matsumoto sarin attack, allegedly perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo in June 1994, have decided to accept 510 million yen in damages in their civil suit against the cult, informed sources said March 19.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

GE Capital receives insurance license

The Finance Ministry on March 19 issued an operating license to GE Capital Edison Life Insurance Co., a new insurer to be set up jointly by Toho Mutual Life Insurance Co. and leading U.S. nonbank financial firm GE Capital Services Inc.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Reporter dogs cultists' trials

For more than eight years, freelance journalist Shoko Egawa has devoted her time and energy to reporting on Aum Shinrikyo, driven by regret that she could not keep her friend, lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, and his family from being murdered.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Aum Three Years Later: Cult seen on steady path to rebirth

Second of three parts
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

DDI, Teleglobe to join on international services

DDI Corp., and Teleglobe Japan Inc., an affiliate of Montreal-based Teleglobe International Inc., jointly announced March 19 that they have signed an agreement in principle for international connections to offer inexpensive international telephone service, starting from October.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Finance official arrested in stimulants bust

A public corporation official on loan from the scandal-hit Finance Ministry and a high school teacher are among a group of five men arrested on suspicion of buying and possessing amphetamine stimulants, police said March 19.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Habibie says Indonesia mulling basket for rupiah

Jusuf Habibie, Indonesia's new vice president, said March 19 that his country is mulling a currency basket for its battered rupiah, according to officials of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren).
JAPAN
Mar 19, 1998

Permanent tax cuts urged by JCCI

The government should make permanent income and residential taxes cuts to shore up the nation's economy, the head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry said March 19.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Metropolitan parties oppose rise in Tokyo service costs

Members of the Liberal Democratic Party, Komei and the Democratic Party of Japan in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly said March 18 that they will jointly oppose most ordinance bills submitted by the governor to raise charges for government facilities and services, including one for garbage collection...
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Corporate pace-setters trim spring pay raises

Reflecting the nation's continuing economic weakness, pace-setting major firms in the auto, electronics, shipbuilding and heavy machinery sectors on March 18 offered wage hikes smaller than those given last year to their labor unions.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Ministry to probe banks' lending levels

The Finance Ministry said March 18 that it will conduct a hearing on banks to determine the extent to which they have eased their stringent stance on lending.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Japan plans to stage cultural week in Tehran

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JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

BOJ mulled tightening, easing monetary policy in February

The Bank of Japan in February considered both easing and tightening its monetary policy to help boost the ailing economy, according to minutes of the BOJ's Monetary Policy Meeting released March 18.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Aum Three Years Later: Sarin plant haunts Kamikuishiki

First of three parts
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Ex-gangster held for sale of stimulants

A former senior gang member has been arrested for allegedly selling about 50 kg of stimulant drugs with a street value of 1.5 billion yen to the head of an underworld group in Tokyo, police said March 18.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Matsushita, Sunny launch TV recycling experiment

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Sunny Metal Corp. started up operations March 18 at an experimental facility to study a television recycling system in Konohana Ward here.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Matsuno tells Diet he condoned 'tobashi' option for Yamaichi

Diet testimony given March 18 by Nobuhiko Matsuno, former chief of the Finance Ministry's Securities Bureau, indicates that he may have advised a top executive of Yamaichi Securities Co. to continue dubious practices involving a "tobashi" trading-related problem with one of its client firms.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Former labor minister's sister given suspended sentence

Yoshie Yamaguchi, 62, elder sister of former Labor Minister Toshio Yamaguchi, was given a suspended 2 1/2-year prison term for collaborating with her brother in having the bankrupt Tokyo Kyowa and Anzen credit unions extend loans illegally to her golf course company.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

State to withdraw 400 million yen claim against Aum

The government intends to withdraw a claim for more than 400 million yen against Aum Shinrikyo, which has been declared bankrupt, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka indicated March 18.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Hashimoto requests help for Indonesia

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has sent messages and urged countries, including the United States, Britain, South Korea and Singapore, to help Indonesia overcome its lingering economic problems, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka said March 18.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 1998

Essay contest open to entire world

Lettre International, a Berlin-based cultural quarterly, and the German city of Weimar, which is designated as the 1999 European City of Culture, are inviting the public from around the globe to enter an essay contest.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Campaigns begin for empty Lower House seat

Six candidates officially started campaigning early March 17 for a March 29 Lower House by-election to fill the Tokyo No. 4 constituency seat left vacant by Shokei Arai, who last month hanged himself shortly before he was to be arrested over illicit profits from Nikko Securities Co.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Sanyo Electric promotes Kondo to presidency

OSAKA -- Sadao Kondo, a managing director of Sanyo Electric Co., will become president on June 26, succeeding Yasuaki Takano, who will then become vice chairman, it was announced here March 17.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Italy's Scalfaro plans state visit

Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro will make a state visit to Japan from April 13 to 19, Foreign Ministry officials said March 17.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Political donations law to change

In an effort to win back public trust in politics by regulating political funding, the three ruling parties agreed March 17 to ban donations to parties from organizations that receive subsidies from local governments and the central government.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

U.S., Europe asked to avoid protectionist measures

Staff writer
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

State grills bank industry official who advised Yamaichi

Nobuhiko Matsuno, 59, vice chairman of the Regional Banks Association of Japan, was questioned by prosecutors about Yamaichi Securities Co. seeking his counseling when he headed the Finance Ministry's Securities Bureau in 1991, informed sources said March 17.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 1998

Ford Japan names Honda veteran new president

Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Co., announced March 17 that Eiji Iwakuni, 55, will become the new president of Ford Japan, to replace Konen Suzuki, beginning April 1. "The company will introduce a series of strong new products next year," Suzuki said. "We concluded that new talent should...
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
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